Dem Candidate Called "Wacky" For Suggesting People Walk or Ride Bikes

Sadly, there are a lot of people who still think that these ideas are wacky. I know it won't be effective for those who know better, but it certainly will be for those people who think it is their God-given right to drive everywhere regardless of the impact.

I'm of the belief that this stems from Ronald Reagan's "culture of me". Republicans have long fueled this selfish belief. They're disgusting opportunists. They play into people's desires to be irresponsible and selfish. Sadly, it works, but that's to the fault of those dimwits that it works on.

We need more wacky ideas. Just look at the mess we have gotten into by ignoring those wacky ideas.

She'd get my vote!!
I guess they didn't want to say how many jobs would be lost by suspending the gas tax and how little it would help those at the pump by the time it would get to the market.

Does anyone take this ad seriously in the US?

Give me wacky every time rather than being Bushwacked.

On the contrary, the ad made me want to vote for Kathy Dahlkemper. The ad is shown quite frequently on television here, and each time I see it, I get angrier. I was also mailed a similar ad against Kathy Dahlkemper with the same message.
In fact, looking through my mail, I just got another one. Same message. It also contains the line "More domestic drilling for gas and oil? Nope....even though it would help end our dependence on foreign oil".

On the contrary, the ad made me want to vote for Kathy Dahlkemper. The ad is shown quite frequently on television here, and each time I see it, I get angrier. I was also mailed a similar ad against Kathy Dahlkemper with the same message.
In fact, looking through my mail, I just got another one. Same message. It also contains the line "More domestic drilling for gas and oil? Nope....even though it would help end our dependence on foreign oil".

Wow, that's a new low. If I didn't know better I'd swear the Daily Show made that one up. I can just see it now: (in a deep voice) "Kathy Dahlkemper wants you to breath air all by yourself, tell Kathy Dahlkemper and those 'air-breathers' in Washington that you don't need to breathe your own air, you'll get someone to do it for you..."

I hope Dahlkemper did not actually portray walking and biking as a matter of "personal responsibility." That does seem like some kind of wacky self-sacrifice.

Where I live the ability to walk and bike places is seen more as a luxury. Housing in walkable neighborhoods has a huge price premium. I live about a mile from the central business district where I have my office. Whenever I tell people I walk to work, they are completely envious.

Dear political parties,
The Dems and The Reps are both in a delusion. Neither one is willing to realize that both have the answer. We must drill in an environmentally sound way and use the resources wisely instead of exporting it to china. We must also focus on the future by revamping our energy system, transportation system, and general life styles. So to me both of you are right and wrong. I just wish we could get a group of democrats and republicans talking to one another, take responsibility, have a little bit of vision, and do both. I dont understand why we cant use the resorces we have. Whats scary, as a Christian, I have several beliefs about all of this. 1. God has provided enough for everyone. 2. as goes the moral and ethical level of behavior of the earth's inhabitants, so goes the very viability of the earth and cosmos itself. In other words I simply mean, we have an effect on the world around us. Each choice makes a difference. I know that is a convtroversial statement. I know many people dont believe in God. Still, I think my faith calls me to be a better steward. I so just dont get why either group the Republicans especially cant realize the value of the whole concept of "green". This was a huge tangent. Rant over. I wish someone would write about all this at least once from a balanced Christian perspective, instead of the usual whacked out "you have to be republican to be Christian perspective".

This reminds me of a tv commercial where two women ask a fit and radiant woman how she does it. What gym do you go to? What diet are you on? The fit woman says, "I just go outside. No really, I just go outside".

The two unfit woman hiss, "well, aren't you smart".

God republicans are gross. Good luck to the USA.

Damn. That's an effective ad. Wonder if they'll call universal healthcare zany? And what about setting goofy timetables in Iraq?

It scares me when I see adverts like this that the US is the most powerful nation in the world.
Do people really buy into this type of advertising or is it just some long running joke you guys are playing on the rest of the world.
"Yes, we really do have citizens this selfish and stupid" Hahaha.
I feel great sympathy for all the great, moderate and intelligent Americans I have and haven't met that you don't seem to be in the majority.
Good luck next month.

I support Kathy Dahlkemper and will vote for her. She deeply cares about Pennsylvania and I know her to be a good person. As for the ad I overheard seniors at dinner recently complaining about the suggestion of walking and biking. Rep Phil English, her opponent, is trying to convince seniors not to vote for Kathy because of her environmental stand. It is sad that seniors would believe what Phil English says.

I am personaly thankful and greatful for the discovery of oil and its many uses. It enriches my life so much, from ease of travel, to recreation, to the building of my house. Oil is wonderful and is a gift we should be thankful for.

Contrary to what some beilive, I think there is plenty of oil out there to get. We just need to get government and the special interests out of the way and let the market place work for us and our comfortable lifestyle.

There are people who have invented technologys that will make our comfortable lifestyles even cheaper, and cleaner, but the government and these special interests are more interested in accumulating power and wealth while using the environment as a way for people to give up their freedom.

The way this happens is government denys pattents to these inventors, because you cannot tax free energy. You also cannot get political power by using these clean and cheap inventions so the evironmentalists are not interested. Have you heard of any proposals from environmentalists that would actually give the power to the people to power their own homes without being attacted to some sort of centralised government run and taxed system?

There is an inventor who has a CO2 scrubber that is very inexpensive to build, that companys could purchase to use to mitigate their wast. Have you heard about it in the news??

The government doesn't want it because it cannot tax it like carbon credits, and the environmentalists don't want it because they cannot gain any political power from it, so they ignor it or possible sabatage it because there is so much money to be made by carbon credits.

It is very important how we approch this situation, do we give more power to the central govenment or more power to the individual? I choose the individual and I hope you will too

I heard "common sense" is a totally elitist-liberal concept.

Our own country contains about 3% of the oil we use, and all the rest we import. Even if we tripled our output (which would make what we have run out 3 times faster) it would still be less than 10% of what we use. The really wacky idea is that we can drill our way out of this problem.

The idea that getting rid of the gas tax is going to help anything is also nuts. Gas taxes are used for maintaining the roads, so if you get rid of the tax you have to get the money from somewhere else, which would ultimately be the same taxpayer who was benefiting from the reduced gas price.

We have a significant portion of our population overweight and not getting enough exercise, so bikes and walking (assuming proper bike lanes) would make people healthier (saving taxpayer dollars) as well as richer and lower the price of gas because of reduced demand.

Kathy Dahlkemper deserves to win in a huge landslide.
Bike lanes and increased walking would do people's health a lot of good as well as solve part of the energy crunch.

As for the Republicans thinking that scuttling taxes of fuel will somehow make more fuel available ... laugh them out of town.

They call this the appeal to rididcule fallacy. An effective way to win any argument by ridiculing your oppenent's totally sound and valid viewpoint:

"So now they're telling us that--get this, folks--global warming is caused by cows farting! Priceless!"

"And then he said we could save gas by inflating our tires! I couldn't make this stuff up, folks!"

Add to it all the absolutely insulting tone of the voice over...this is really sad.

Well when Kathy sees an ad like this, I hope she laughs and also realizes that there are an awful lot of people who will say, "She's right!"

I wish we could find the idiots who contrived this mess and do a Streetfilm on them....

>Hmmm, is this effective?

Apparently not. Kathy Dahlkemper won PA's 3rd Congressional District by 3.1%.